Expenditure

By team · For accountants

Expense management for accountants, bookkeepers and accounting firms

Every accountant and bookkeeper knows the real bottleneck at month end, and it is not the accounting. It is the chase. Clients hand over a card statement with a dozen charges nobody can identify, receipts arrive as blurry photos in a text message or not at all, and half the coding is guesswork you have to sanity-check line by line. You are billing for expertise but spending the hours on data entry, and the close slips because one client has not sent their receipts.

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Receipts in · categorized spend out · waste flagged

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Drop a receipt, snap a photo, or forward an email
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Receipts in, categorized spend out

Expenditure reads the vendor, amount, date and tax, categorizes the expense, checks it against your policy, and rolls it into a real-time picture of every dollar, then flags the waste.

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Reading your receipt

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Extracted & categorized

Real-time spend

Month to date

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Live, interactive · categorized in seconds

Categorized & policy-checked · works with your existing cards · we never move your money · insights, not financial advice

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Works with your existing cards

Bank-grade · we never move your money

Expenditure is built to remove that work before it reaches you. Your client snaps or forwards a receipt and it is read, categorized to the right GL account, checked against their policy and matched to the card transaction automatically, then synced to QuickBooks, Xero or NetSuite as a clean coded record. You get books that are already close to right, an audit trail for every line, and a real-time view of client spend that lets you advise instead of reconcile. It runs on the cards and banks the client already has, and it never moves or holds anyone's money.

Why it works

What your team gets with for accountants

The chase, handled

Clients capture receipts as they spend and each one is read and coded, so you stop asking for the same missing receipt three times.

Coded before it reaches you

Expenses arrive categorized to the right GL account and checked against policy, so your close is a review rather than data entry.

Advisory, not reconciliation

A live view of client spend, with duplicate subscriptions and price creep flagged, gives you something worth billing for.

What it handles

A receipt in, a categorized line out, the waste flagged

Expenditure reads each receipt, categorizes it, checks it against your policy and rolls it into real-time spend, then surfaces the duplicate subscriptions and savings you are leaking.

  • Receipts captured and read at the moment of spend
  • Every expense coded to the right GL account
  • A clear audit trail behind every line item
  • Syncs clean records to QuickBooks, Xero and NetSuite
  • Surfaces client waste you can advise on
EXTRACTED In policy

Categorized receipt

VendorFigma
Amount$144.00
CategorySoftware → SaaS
GL account6420 · Software

Savings insight

save $108/mo

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Why Expenditure

Receipts read, spend categorized, waste flagged

Not manual coding, not a stale spreadsheet. Expenditure reads each receipt, checks your policy, shows real-time spend, and flags the savings, all on the cards and banks you already have.

Read and categorized

Snap, forward or drop a receipt. The AI reads the vendor, amount, tax and line items, categorizes it and matches the card, in seconds.

Waste flagged

Duplicate and overlapping subscriptions, unused tools, price creep and out-of-policy spend, surfaced in real time with the potential saving.

Secure and in your control

Bank-grade security, we never move or hold your money, and we never train on your data. Insights, not advice, your finance team decides.

Good questions

Questions about for accountants

It removes the two jobs that eat the most non-billable time: chasing clients for receipts and coding transactions by hand. Expenses arrive already read, categorized to the right account and policy-checked, so the close becomes a review. The time you get back is time you can bill as advisory work rather than data entry.
Yes. Each client keeps their own spend, policy rules and ledger connection, and their data stays separate. Talk to us about how you want your firm set up, because how you structure access across clients is worth getting right at the start rather than unpicking later.
No. Expenditure is not an accounting system. It captures and codes spend, enforces the policy and finds waste, then syncs clean data into QuickBooks, Xero or NetSuite, which stays the client book of record. It makes the ledger you already use more accurate rather than replacing it.
The OCR reads what it can and anything it is unsure about is flagged for review rather than silently guessed, so a bad scan becomes a question instead of a wrong number in the books. You keep control of the final coding, which is the point: it is software and insight, not a black box you have to trust blindly.
Client data is held with bank-grade security and role-based access, and it is never sold or used to train models. Expenditure also never moves or holds money, so it sits alongside the client accounts rather than inside the payment flow. It is software and insight, not financial, tax or accounting advice.

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